Making a bathroom cabinet. Manufacturing of facades using circular and milling cutters. Part 5

Greetings.

In the previous parts, it was about drawings, fixtures and methods of work in the manufacture of such a cabinet.

You can view these publications by following the links below.

Making a bathroom cabinet. Project drawings. Part 1

Making a bathroom cabinet. Workshop fixtures. Part 2

Making a bathroom cabinet. Body assembly and assembly tool. Part 3

Making a bathroom cabinet. Making grooves for the back wall and mirror. Part 4

In this part, we will focus on the manufacture of facades.

I did the milling on the panels with a circular saw. The method is quite working.

A rail with a groove in the middle is placed across the saw blade. The edge of the rail should be centered on the disc.

You can milling in this way no more than 2 mm in one pass. The saw blade rises 2 mm above the table and the workpiece is milled from all sides.

Then the saw blade rises another 2 mm and the next pass is made. And so on until the result.

After that I started making frames for facades. The groove in the frame was milled with a 7 mm thick disc cutter. I set the cutter so that the groove is in the middle, and the depth is 5 mm. With this setting, the grooves were made in the vertical and horizontal parts of the frame. On the frame, I also marked the front side to mill with one side down, thereby ensuring an even plane of the frame from the front side.

This disc cutter allows a 16 mm deep groove. By this amount on each side, I increased the horizontal parts in order to assemble them into a tenon-groove.

To make nests in racks, I set the maximum milling depth without changing the cutter settings.

On the racks, I made markings along the width of the facade frame and, when milling, brought the center of the cutter to the markings, or vice versa, the markings were brought to the center of the cutter. That is, he milled the slots in the racks "face down". On the one hand, I started from the edge of the rack and up to the markings, and on the other, I started from the markings to the edge.

After that, he readjusted the cutter in height and made a spike in horizontal parts in two passes.

At the bottom setting, I chose a quarter of the panels so that they fit into the frame groove.

It remained to saw the horizontal parts in width, since the blanks were double, and assemble the facades on a "dry" basis for milling the frame.

The result is such a facade.

For more details on the production of a facade, see the video clip below.

The next part will be about the manufacture of decorative elements for the cabinet

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